National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.
The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. Herein lies the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire.
The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.
Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one's fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in two short words: bust ass.
[Cardinal John O'Connor] had [my wife] Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could have envisioned back when I was a kid in Boston, that a cardinal and I would be, if not breaking bread, at least breaking Scotch.
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.
The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.
The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.
[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.
When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.